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He still lets me tuck him in at bedtime. Nine years old, in a big
hurry to grow up — but he hasn’t yet booted me from
plopping beside him, pulling the covers up to his chin, and humming
some hit ’80s song while I drag my fingers through his
silky,… Read full post »

He still lets me tuck him in at bedtime. Nine years old, in a big
hurry to grow up — but he hasn’t yet booted me from
plopping beside him, pulling the covers up to his chin, and humming
some hit ’80s song while I drag my fingers through his
silky,… Read full post »

When was the last time you stared hard at nothing? I mean really
and truly focused your eyes on precisely zilch, tuned out the
clamor and din of your immediate vicinity, followed your
unpredictable mind down an unproductive path and just …
fully … spaced?

You’re catching a lot of flak for the whole
return-of-deadly-diseases-that-were-already-abolished thing. And I
feel for you. Experts are saying your refusal to vaccinate your
children is to blame for new outbreaks of measles and whooping
cough — which was never you… Read full post »

I have a friend I adore. She’s smart, compassionate, funny,
open-minded, and operates power tools. Correctly. So when she told
me last week that she’s going to have a baby, I was ecstatic.
More delightful people like her in the world? Huzzah!

Apparently there’s a thing. When you turn 40, you’re
supposed to get serious about an exercise regimen. No more making
do with occasional hikes and swims, or riding your bike to the
bakery and calling it cardio. It’s the do-or-die decade: Do
commit to intense frequent fitness or die… Read full post »

There I was at my keyboard, writing about something sensible and
semi-important, when this news popped up on my screen:
“Nearly Half of Young Women in the U.K. Don’t
Know Where Their Vagina Is.” And because a headline like that
can’t be ignored, you’ll just hav/… Read full post »

Growing up in Tinsel Town, a gal gets jaded. Look, it can’t
be helped. From before I could say “actors’
equity,” we lived directly beneath the glowing Hollywood
sign. My folks were in “the industry” and hobnobbed
with rock stars, deejays, and TVpersonalities./… Read full post »

Hey again. It’s me, Stone. You may remember me from last
summer, when I ranted about parental oppression. Well, I’m
back, with something else I need to get off my chest. This time
it’s about the surprising, brand-new world of&n… Read full post »

Remember the Harryhausen’s scene from the Pixar
flick Monsters, Inc.? A variety
of furry, fanged, tentacled beasts are enjoying a civilized evening
at a fancy restaurant, the kind where you have to pull strings to
get a reservation. And the sudden appearance of a wide-eyed,
pig-tailed huma/… Read full post »

Here’s how life works: On the day you’re scheduled to
interview your idol, you wake up with acute laryngitis. I mean bad.
You can’t speak above a guttural whisper and the occasional
deep, booming croak.

I don’t have a lot of bad things to say about monogamy. Most
of the time it’s a sweet deal: I never worry I’m going
to blurt out the wrong guy’s name in bed, and I always have
someone to drag with me to the office holiday party. But
there’s an… Read full post »

A new California law will allow K-12 public-school students to use
restrooms and join sports teams based not on their sex — but
on their gender identity. That means that starting January 1,
transgender students who are biologically male will be allowed into
girls’ bathrooms and those who… Read full post »

When it comes to celebrating wedding anniversaries, there are two
distinct types of wife: the needy ones who demand hearts, flowers,
and other manufactured, predictable demonstrations of affection
just so they can feel appropriately, annually adulated. And there
are the more evolved, laissez-faire la… Read full post »